Storming Start to the Year

👨‍🎓👩‍🎓18 (yes, 18) of our coaches completed the assistant coach course last Saturday on the campus and in sunshine. 🌞 🚶‍♀️🥈Ciara Wilson Bowen was a barely noticed 2nd in the English indoor champs 3,000m walk. 👏👏🥈Our T&F field teams lie second in both men’s and women’s in the national indoor champs after Sunday’s round. Highlight for me was the 4x200m w relay team which included a 15-year-old (Evelyn (very) Kwik) and a 50-year-old (must be discreet). They won their heat. 👏🎉🇪🇺 And a European W50 record for Adina Gheorghiu in the 60m. (I see three DSD women in the top 10 rankings over 60m this season so far.) 🎉🎉🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️‍➡️🏃🏼‍➡️🏃‍♀️The East and West Leinster schools xc champs included lots or our lads and lassies during the week. ☔️ The campus survived storm Eowyn with little damage.🇪🇺 A strong team was picked for the European Champion Clubs Cross Country on 2nd Feb: Amy Donohue, Eimear Maher, Jamie Byrne and Joe Hastings will wear the famous silver vests in Portugal. 🇵🇹 Rob Corbally and Donal Hennigan will carry the tracksuits.🇺🇸 I’m looking forward to Elizabeth Ndudi (LJ) 🤸🏻‍♂️going again this weekend in Illinois and Hiko running the Seville Half Marathon. 🇪🇸 Hiko has the B standard in the marathon for the world champs in Tokyo and is preparing for the Rotterdam marathon.And equally exciting, we have a first aid ⛑️ course for coaches this Saturday on the campus. Gerry McGrath